Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 31st Jan 2007 22:06 UTC, submitted by novaburst
The new AROS Developer Robert Norris has been interviewed by the AROS Show. "One of the original goals for AROS was 100% compatibility with AmigaOS 3.1. This is a noble goal, but it's not particularly forward-looking. AmigaOS has moved on since then, and there will be no new m68k hardware, yet many AROS developers are intent on making sure everything they do can be made to work on the older systems. That's their perogative of course, but my concern is that by constantly looking backwards we're missing the opportunities in the future."
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2006-01-16
They went for AOS 3.0 for the same reason ReactOS originally went for NT 4.0 and Haiku for BeOS 5.0. If you don't aim for something fixed at the beginning nothing gets done, in the early days people where just arguing about what they could do better and how so that no work actually got done.